Idioms, Fallacies, and Paradoxes

False Compromise

Argumentum ad temperantium is assuming that the compromise between two positions is always correct.

An informal fallacy which assertst that the truth must be found as a compromise between two opposite positions. This fallacy's opposite is the false dilemma.

Also known as argument to moderation, middle ground, gray fallacy, false middle point fallacy, equidistance fallacy, and the golden mean fallacy